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cwt

noun

1. a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds

• Syn: ↑hundredweight, ↑short hundredweight, ↑centner, ↑cental, ↑quintal

• Hypernyms: ↑avoirdupois unit

• Part Holonyms: ↑short ton, ↑ton, ↑net ton

• Part Meronyms: ↑quarter

2. a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds

• Syn: ↑hundredweight, ↑long hundredweight

• Hypernyms: ↑avoirdupois unit

• Part Holonyms: ↑long ton, ↑ton, ↑gross ton

• Part Meronyms: ↑quarter

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abbreviation

Etymology: Latin centum + English weight

hundredweight

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hundredweight; hundredweights.

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abbrev

Hundredweight(s)

ORIGIN: c for L centum a hundred, and wt for weight

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cwt abbreviation

hundredweight

Thesaurus: units for measuring weight, area or volume_hyponym to measure something_synonym

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abbr

hundredweight

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cwt abbreviation (pl. cwt)

(in writing) ↑hundredweight

 

Word Origin:

[cwt cwt.] from Latin centum ‘a hundred’.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.